Conversation: 432-030
Prev: 432-029 Next: 432-031Start Date: Wednesday, May 9, 1973 4:03 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 9, 1973 4:31 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:03 pm and 12:31 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 432-030 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 432-30
Date: May 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:31 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
White House special prosecutor
-Appointment
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Background
-Governor, Attorney-General
-California
-Democrat
-Regard for Presidency [?]
-Advantages
-Name recognition
-Former district attorney
-Effect on committee
-Sensitivity to national interests
-Background
-Attorney general
-Governor
-President’s Democratic opponent, 1962
-Elliot L. Richardson’s choice
-Harvard University
-Effect on John N. Mitchell
-Brown
-President’s recommendation
-Richardson
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